Woman Quotes
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I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.
Lisa Edelstein
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Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.
Sarah Silverman
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
Elizabeth Bennett
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
Edwidge Danticat
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know...
Ina May Gaskin
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
Catherine Ashton
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Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
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She had no beauty to commend her apart from the sweetness of her smile and the kindliness of her round brown eyes, but she carried with her wherever she went that aura of almost heavenly motherliness which so often shines about a woman who has borne only one child, and in losing it has become mother to all the world, shining more wonderfully than about the mother of a dozen.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I'm a woman in search on an adventure.
Alice Steinbach
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Hillary Clinton
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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
George Eliot
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I'm really looking to reach any woman who's interested in refining and embracing her personal style.
Nina Garcia
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On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.
Boy George Culture Club
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
Herodotus
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge Piercy
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac
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Initially, the only thing that mattered to me - I was too young to understand the politics of the day - was that there was a woman who was covering the NFL. I asked my mom if I could be a sportscaster when I grew up. My mom was an adventurous spirit herself. Much to my mom's credit, she said, "Yes, you can." It didn't matter to her that no other women were doing it at the time. It didn't matter to her that there was a double standard. It just mattered that her daughter had a dream and she was going to help her pursue that.
Beth Mowins
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A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
Elsie de Wolfe
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
Marianne Williamson